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July 10-17, 2027

June 30- July 8, 2027

10:00am - 4:00pm Monday through Friday
1912 Gallery, 1st Floor Canaday Library

"As you are working on your application, be sure to build time in to complete your supplemental essays."

"Beyond traditional laboratory research experience, the research program provides students with various professional development and networking opportunities."

How do the places we live and work shape our health? Why is life expectancy well over 80 years in some Philadelphia neighborhoods, but 64 in others? The interdisciplinary field of social epidemiology offers tools for answering these questions and many more.

This class investigates the unique history of housing in Philadelphia. We will cover the problems the city has faced and still faces in providing affordable housing, fair access to housing and creating diverse and vibrant neighborhoods and its great legacy of innovation in this area.

How have Black Philadelphians contended with public health crises and sought to redress racial health disparities? Together, we will explore this question and more to learn about the intergenerational struggles Black people have engaged in as they employed public health concepts and redressed gaps in government-supported public health initiatives over generations.

"International students should not feel intimidated by the application process simply because they come from different educational systems and different countries."

"As interviewers, we are rooting for you during the college admissions process."

March 27, 2026 - May 31, 2026

“I think that my four project assistants of this semester went above and beyond my expectations because I ended up reaching myself a better understanding of my own scholarship through their independent discoveries, research, and insights.” — Luca Zipoli, Assistant Professor of Transnational Italian Studies